I think the beginners and help forum is well structured to get you up and running into the cryptocurrency world all you need to is to through the thread like its name implies beginners and help so there will be some post that are not up to standard
 But take a look at some classic post.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=126798.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2534500.0